Artemis II blasts off for moon mission in glorious return to golden age of space exploration

Source: New York Post

Artemis II successfully launched into Earth’s orbit from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Wednesday, marking the crucial first step in mankind’s historic return to deep space and the moon. A crew of four astronauts, three Americans and one Canadian, are onboard the towering 322-foot rocket for humanity’s first lunar flight since 1972. The perilous 10-day mission is expected to take them 250,000 miles away from home, further from Earth than any human has ever gone.